In the short story “How Boys Become Men” by Jon Katz, Katz becomes extremely effective in communication by using word choice that speaks to the directly reader.To kickoff, Katz explains why some men are tongue-tied by writing “But if you don't understand something about boys, you can't understand why men are the way we are, why we find it so difficult to make friends or to acknowledge our fears and problems”(Katz 1). By using pronouns such as “You” and “We” to directly speak to the reader, the text becomes more personal and much more effective in communicating to the reader. In addition to word choice, Katz switches to a first person narrative to engage in the reader by writing “When I got home, my mother took one look at my swollen face and
